Appropriate administrators will collaborate with faculty members to ensure each faculty member is assigned a workload that best meets student and institutional need. In cases where faculty are in an overload or underload situation, banking procedures may be followed. All full-time FCCJ teaching faculty shall be assigned a base teaching load of 30 workload units (WLUs) within 180 days (to include official College holidays) of full-time service, which includes two sixteen week semesters. Cumulative WLU totals of 29.5 to 29.9 will be rounded up to 30 WLUs.
A. Teaching Faculty (180 days and 40 hours per week)
All full-time teaching faculty shall work a standard forty (40) hours per week on College activities. Thirty (30) hours shall be scheduled and the remaining hours will be used for College related professional activities as listed in Section III of this article. Each teaching faculty member shall schedule 30 hours which includes classroom contact hours, posted office hours available, and instructional support time. Ten (10) office hours will be scheduled and approved to best meet the needs of the students except for faculty whose base workload requires more than 20 classroom contact hours. For those faculty members, office hours will be equal to 30 minus the classroom contact hours. Office hours may be rescheduled as needed. Notices will be posted in advance indicating alternate times that the faculty member will be available. Professional activities in which faculty participate during the remaining hours will be determined during conferences with the appropriate administrator and evaluated annually. Reassigned time may be granted at the discretion of the administrator as approved by the Executive Vice President or designee.
B. Librarians (180 days and 40 hours per week)
All full-time librarians shall work a standard 40 hours per week on college activities. Thirty- five (35) hours shall be scheduled except during peak times to ensure that student needs are met. Professional activities in which faculty participate during the remaining hours will be determined during conferences with the appropriate administrator and evaluated annually. Work schedule conferences shall be held with the appropriate supervisor during the spring semester of each year and assignments made. Annual schedules shall be developed by the librarian in collaboration with and approved by the appropriate administrator to ensure that adequate coverage is provided to meet student needs. Additional weeks may be assigned based upon institutional needs as provided below. Librarians may teach classes when approved. The campus president may grant up to five (5) hours of reassigned time to librarians for special projects. (Librarians on a 220-day contract as of March 1, 2003 may elect to stay on a 220-day contract or may accept a contract with fewer days by mutual agreement with the appropriate supervisor, to a minimum of 180.)
C. Counselors (180 days and 40 hours per week)
All full-time counselors shall work a standard 40 hours per week on college activities. Thirty- five (35) hours shall be scheduled except during peak times to ensure that student needs are met. Professional activities in which faculty participate during the remaining hours will be determined during conferences with the appropriate administrator and evaluated annually. Work schedule conferences shall be held with the appropriate supervisor during the spring semester of each year and assignments made. Annual schedules shall be developed by the
counselor in collaboration with and approved by the appropriate administrator to ensure that adequate coverage is provided to meet student needs. Additional weeks may be assigned based upon institutional needs as provided below. Counselors may teach classes when approved. The campus president may grant up to five (5) hours of reassigned time to counselors for special projects. (Counselors on a 220-day contract as of March 1, 2003 may elect to stay on a 220-day contract or accept a contract with fewer days by mutual agreement with the appropriate supervisor, to a minimum of 180.)
D. Special Contract Option
An extra teaching term may be offered to teaching faculty in designated programs at a flat rate as approved in the contract. The base load for an extra term will be 15 WLUs.
E. Extra Non-teaching Weeks
Extra non-teaching weeks may be offered to faculty when institutional need requires and as approved by the Executive Vice President. Each non-teaching week will involve activities related to College goals. Faculty will be compensated at 2.5% of their base rate per week.
Overload
Overload assignments will be made to meet student and instruction need by mutual agreement between the appropriate administrators and faculty. A faculty member whose total workload units in a 16-week period exceeds 24 requires permission from the appropriate instructional dean. Faculty members who meet their base teaching load at 30 WLUs per academic year shall not be required to accept additional class assignments that place them over 31 WLUs. A faculty member shall not be required to teach a sixth course in any given term to fulfill base load.
Other Professional Activities for Teaching Faculty
During contract days when a teaching faculty member has no scheduled classes as part of base load, the following activities may be scheduled: program development, course development, committee and task force service, student advising and recruiting, participation in College-sponsored professional development, approved internships and professional residencies, certification training, professional meetings, tutoring, working in the learning lab, development of work-based learning agreements, in field research, and approved special projects.
Work-based Learning (Cooperative Education, Internships and Practicums)
In those courses where a faculty member places students in the work environment under the supervision of an employer and visits the students throughout the semester to ensure work-based learning is occurring, the workload unit shall be the student credit hour earned, up to 3 WLUs, for enrollments of 12 to 25. In cases of course enrollment under 12, the dean may offer a stipend to a faculty member. The stipend will be calculated at .07 times the appropriate overload rate (up to 3 WLUs) times the number of students. Faculty may choose to count enrollments under 12 as part of their load using the formula .04 times the WLU (up to 3 WLUs) times the number of students.
Sections may be combined in order to make a full course. Exceptions to this rule may occur if dictated by accreditation entities and reflected in the curriculum files.
Team Teaching
WLUs assigned to a team-taught course will be divided proportionally between or among the teaching faculty. Total WLUs may not exceed those assigned to the course through the curriculum process.
Course Combining
Combining of courses may be used to improve College efficiency and effectiveness. A. Combining Lecture Sections of Same Courses
The supervising administrator may combine the lecture component of courses where educationally sound. When the lecture portions of the same course are combined, the faculty member will be credited with one lecture.
B. Combining Credit Type/Stacking
Class sessions may involve students or more than one credit type. When this occurs, the appropriate administrator will determine the appropriate workload credit. Continuing workforce education and other types of noncredit continuing education and recreation courses may not be used to make load.
C. Combining of Course Levels
Subsequent to consultation with the faculty member, the supervising administrator may combine courses of various instructional levels as academically appropriate.
Directed Study and Independent Study
Professors shall be paid .07 times the appropriate overload rate (up to 3 WLUs) times the number of students. Faculty may choose credit toward their teaching load at the rate of .04 times the WLU (up to 3 WLUs) times the number of students. Faculty may have no more than 10 directed or independent study students per semester.
Dynamic Banking
Base load for faculty will normally be completed during the fall and spring terms. Other combinations of terms may be used as appropriate. It shall be the responsibility of the supervising administrator to plan a full load for all full-time faculty. At the discretion of the supervisor, dynamic banking may be used to shift earned or needed WLUs to the subsequent year. The use of WLUs from one contract year that impacts upon the subsequent year will be limited to eight (8) WLUs for each faculty member. Dynamic banking will be used as a tool to ensure optimum resource utilization and scheduling flexibility. The appropriate supervising administrator will consult with faculty members who have earned excess WLUs or have not made base load. While the preference of faculty will be given significant consideration, the load plan will ultimately be based on student need. Administrators may bank WLUs on behalf of faculty using the following guidelines:
A. During class scheduling for fall and spring terms, priority will be given to full-time faculty to achieve their load obligations. During the faculty member’s second term scheduling, if a
faculty member is not scheduled to meet load obligations, he or she shall have the option of teaching courses at other campuses if an adjunct instructor is not already scheduled.
B. Base load review will occur by April 1 of each year. If a faculty member has earned WLUs beyond their basic load, they may, if approved:
1. Be paid for all WLUs over the maximum base load.
2. Bank the excess to reduce their load obligation in the subsequent contract year.
3. Bank WLUs taught over summer terms to reduce load obligations in the subsequent contract year.
C. If a faculty member has not completed base load at the end of the contract year, the following options, in order of priority, will be considered and a plan will be developed by the supervising administrator in consultation with the faculty member:
1. Completion of WLUs during the subsequent semester.
2. Completion of the required number of WLUs during the subsequent academic year. 3. When options one and two cannot be implemented, salary reduction shall be calculated
at the applicable WLU rate for the faculty member’s base salary.
D. The banking of WLUs is a process that works over a two-year period. The two years consist of the year the WLUs were earned or not earned and the subsequent academic year. Negative WLUs must be resolved by the end of the second academic year. Positive or negative banked hours will be used as the first hours expended toward base load requirements in the first term of the subsequent academic year.
Workload Unit Course Values
Courses existing in the master course outline developed through the College’s Curriculum Committee process and in effect at the close of the Spring 2003 semester shall serve as the assignment of WLU value for each course for the duration of the term of this agreement. WLU value increases in eight (8) areas as noted in the January 23, 2002 e-mail memo Partial Points Task Force Update shall also be in effect for the duration of the term of this agreement. (See Appendix E.)